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Downloading a model has failed

See original GitHub issue

After installing Spacy I run the following command

python -m spacy.en.download

and got the error:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/runpy.py", line 162, in _run_module_as_main
    "__main__", fname, loader, pkg_name)
  File "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/runpy.py", line 72, in _run_code
    exec code in run_globals
  File "/Users/andrazhribernik/cytora/streaming-pipeline/venv/lib/python2.7/site-packages/spacy/en/download.py", line 13, in <module>
    plac.call(main)
  File "/Users/andrazhribernik/cytora/streaming-pipeline/venv/lib/python2.7/site-packages/plac_core.py", line 328, in call
    cmd, result = parser.consume(arglist)
  File "/Users/andrazhribernik/cytora/streaming-pipeline/venv/lib/python2.7/site-packages/plac_core.py", line 207, in consume
    return cmd, self.func(*(args + varargs + extraopts), **kwargs)
  File "/Users/andrazhribernik/cytora/streaming-pipeline/venv/lib/python2.7/site-packages/spacy/en/download.py", line 9, in main
    download('en', force)
  File "/Users/andrazhribernik/cytora/streaming-pipeline/venv/lib/python2.7/site-packages/spacy/download.py", line 24, in download
    package = sputnik.install(about.__title__, about.__version__, about.__models__[lang])
  File "/Users/andrazhribernik/cytora/streaming-pipeline/venv/lib/python2.7/site-packages/sputnik/__init__.py", line 37, in install
    index.update()
  File "/Users/andrazhribernik/cytora/streaming-pipeline/venv/lib/python2.7/site-packages/sputnik/index.py", line 84, in update
    index = json.load(session.open(request, 'utf8'))
  File "/Users/andrazhribernik/cytora/streaming-pipeline/venv/lib/python2.7/site-packages/sputnik/session.py", line 43, in open
    r = self.opener.open(request)
  File "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 431, in open
    response = self._open(req, data)
  File "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 449, in _open
    '_open', req)
  File "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 409, in _call_chain
    result = func(*args)
  File "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 1240, in https_open
    context=self._context)
  File "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 1197, in do_open
    raise URLError(err)
urllib2.URLError: <urlopen error [Errno 8] nodename nor servname provided, or not known>

It seems that server where models are stored is down. It could be that I am missing something. Thanks for your help.